What is the Dante® font?
Giovanni Mardersteig started work on Dante after the Second World War, when printing at the Officina Bodoni returned to full production. He drew on his experience of using Monotype Bembo and Centaur to design a new book face with an italic which worked harmoniously with the roman. Originally hand-cut by Charles Malin, it was adapted for mechanical composition by Monotype in 1957.
The new digital version has been redrawn, by Monotype’s Ron Carpenter, free from any restrictions imposed by hot metal technology. It was issued in 1993 in a range of three weights with a set of titling capitals, and is now available from Adobe. More…
Dante is a beautiful book face which can also be used to good effect in magazines and periodicals.
Dante® Font families
The Dante® includes the following font families:
- Dante MT Std Regular
- Dante MT Std Italic
- Dante MT Std Medium
- Dante MT Std Medium Italic
- Dante MT Std Bold
- Dante MT Std Bold Italic
Dante® Preview
Here is a preview of how Dante® will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
You're probably thinking - Is Dante® available to Download for free?
The short answer is no. Dante® is definitely not available as a free download font. This is a premium font which mean that you will have to pay to download and use it in your project. We showcase fonts on SharedFonts that are almost all premium fonts. Feel free to waste valuable hours of your time searching for a free download of Dante®, but take it from me, you will not be successful in your quest. Just think how much time and effort you will save if you just pay for Dante® and be done with it.
It is always best to pay for a premium font rather than trying to find an illegal download. The benefits of paying for Dante® is that you get the license to use it leagally. If you're using an illegal version of Dante® and you get caught, you or your client could get into some trouble legally with the publisher of Dante®.
Also it is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find Dante® for free. Doing various searches on Google such as "Free Dante® Download" you will see a lot of websites that will say "Free Download" but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for Dante® remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!
If you really want Dante® and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)
